COLLEGE AND UNIT HIGHLIGHTS ATHLETICS
· 18 NCAA Division I sports, including seven men’s teams and eleven women’s teams
ranks the Chaplin School’s online · BestCollege.com
hospitality management bachelor’s program #1 in the U.S. (2018)
· In 2017, Panther Football earned its first bowl bid since
· #1 Best Online Hotel Management Program
Beach Volleyball is ranked #13 in the nation. · Women’s Swimming and Diving team has won four · Women’s
COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCES & EDUCATION (CASE)
the 2011 season and its third overall for the program.
straight conference championships, from 2014 to 2017. In 2018, nine student-athletes were named to the 2018 College Swimming and Diving Coaches of Association of America Scholar All-America Team.
· In the 2018 NCAA annual Academic Progress Rate
report, all FIU teams finished above 930—the required score—with 15 scoring 960 or better (1,000 is a perfect score).
CHAPLIN SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY & TOURISM MANAGEMENT
· #1 School in the U.S. in awarding hospitality
management bachelor’s degrees to Hispanics and African Americans (Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 2018)
named the Food Network & Cooking Channel · BizBash
South Beach Wine & Food Festival, started by the Chaplin School, as the #1 Food Industry Event in the U.S. (2018).
(AffordableCollegesOnline.org)
· CASE is FIU’s largest college, with 17,945 students (Fall 2018).
· The STEM Transformation Institute’s nationally
recognized Learning Assistant peer-mentoring program is the largest of its kind in the country.
· The Center for Children and Families helps 300 children struggling with mental health concerns every summer and provides 3,000+ families with clinical services each year.
· FIU Tropics is home to one of the largest teams of tropical scientists in the country.
· CASE is home to the only underwater research laboratory in the world.
· FIU students and faculty spent 785 hours working
underwater on scientific research and training in 2017.
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COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION, ARCHITECTURE + THE ARTS (CARTA)
· CARTA consists of three distinct, yet related, disciplines: Communication + Journalism. Architecture. Visual + Performing Arts. FIU is one of only three universities in the nation to house these disciplines in one college with a common, unifying mission.
· CARTA students are aspiring designers, entrepreneurs, musicians, producers, animators, communicators, actors, actresses, curators, conductors, directors, authors, reporters, make-up artists, editors, architects, playwrights, singers, artists, and composers.
Department of Journalism and Media is the · CARTA’s
only program in the country to offer a graduate degree in Spanish Language Journalism.
CARTA, FIU is the first—and only—university in · Through
the United States to have a formal academic partnership with the Bauhaus-Dessau Foundation that allows for an international design competition and the construction of a Master House in the United States.
COLLEGE OF LAW
· #1 First-time bar passage rate in Florida. Law graduates consistently earn the highest bar passage rate of any of Florida’s 11 law schools.
· Following graduation, the 2017 graduating class
reported a 91% employment rate, with 74% in fulltime, legal positions. The majority of graduates were employed in Florida.
· 17th best value law school in the nation according to The National Jurist (2017)
· Ranked #5 of 11 law schools in Florida by the 2018 U.S. News & World Report
· Ranked #101 nationally by the 2018 U.S. News & World Report
FIU BUSINESS
· FIU Business is among the top 5 percent of elite
business schools worldwide accredited by the AACSB International—the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & COMPUTING
· The undergraduate International Business program is
· One of the largest engineering colleges in the country
· The International MBA program is ranked #29 in 2018
· Largest producer of Hispanic engineers and ninth-
· The undergraduate and graduate Human Resource
· Four faculty are members of the prestigious National
· The Hollo School of Real Estate was ranked #1 in the
(#32 in ASEE 2017 Ranking)—and one of the largest in enrollment of Hispanic students at a majority-minority institution
largest producer of African American engineers in the country (ASEE 2017)
Academy of Inventors.
· The School of Universal Computing, Construction,
and Engineering Education (SUCCEED) is the first engineering education department at a minority-serving institution.
· FIU engineering students and faculty help an average of
1,300 students from Miami-Dade and Broward county schools annually through Engineers on Wheels, a handson program for K-12 students.
ranked #6 in 2018 in U.S. News & World Report.
among top U.S. MBA programs for Latin Americans in América Economía, the leading Latin American business magazine.
Management programs are ranked #1 in the U.S. by HR.com (2018).
U.S. and #2 globally for real estate research in the Real Estate Academic Leadership (REAL) 2017 Institution Rankings, marking its third consecutive year in the top spots.
published in high-ranking journals, FIU · Regularly
Business faculty have achieved a ranking in the Top 100 highest research faculty, as measured by the University of Texas at Dallas.
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FIU LIBRARIES Total physical volumes held · 1,400,000 Ebook titles · 397,453 Electronic journal, magazine, and newspaper · 127,793 titles
· 91,000 Streaming video titles · 22,510 students visited Green Library in one month (October 2018)
· Digital Library of the Caribbean provides access to 2.6 million pages of content related to the Caribbean and has registered a cumulative total of 96 million page views.
HERBERT WERTHEIM COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
·
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine has graduated 492 medical students since 2013. In December 2017, the College graduated its inaugural class of 44 students in its Master in Physician Assistant Studies program.
· The College’s medical students have consistently performed at a high level, scoring higher than the national averages on STEP 1 and 2 exams.
· In 2016, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine’s
innovative curriculum, which focuses on social accountability and the social determinants of health, was selected by the Association for Medical Education in Europe as one of four recipients of the ASPIRE-toExcellence Award in Social Responsibility.
· A nationally and internationally recognized approach
to medical education and healthcare delivery, the College’s Green Family Foundation NeighborhoodHELP deploys interdisciplinary student and faculty care teams to underserved households in Miami-Dade County and South Miami. It also delivers integrated primary preventative care, behavioral health services, and chronic disease management to household members via three Mobile Health Centers.
· Green Family Foundation NeighborhoodHELP also
operates the Linda Fenner Mobile Mammography Center, the only one of its kind in South Florida. Designed to overcome barriers to access and save lives, the Mobile Mammography Center drives to underserved communities to provide free screening mammograms, breast health education, and navigation support for women with abnormal mammogram results.
HONORS COLLEGE
· Most Honors College students conduct meaningful research or creative activities.
· The Honors College sponsors the Conference
for Undergraduate Research at FIU, the largest multidisciplinary conference in the state of Florida.
· The Honors College hosts a yearly social innovation
day, where all Honors College freshmen present social innovation projects.
· All Honors College students are involved in community engagement every year, investing over 35,000 hours of service in the community.
· Nearly 100 Honors College students had the opportunity to go abroad through one of the seven Study Abroad Programs offered by the College (2017).
JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA–FIU
· The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU is comprised of two adjacent Art Deco buildings, formerly synagogues for the first Jewish congregation on Miami Beach. These buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
· Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Museum’s collections encompass more than 100,000 items that reflect over 250 years of Jewish history, culture, and art.
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· The Museum is activated through many academic
programs at FIU, such as the Jewish Studies Certificate Program and the Holocaust Studies Initiative of the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs.
· The Jewish Museum of Florida is an extended
classroom for thousands of Miami-Dade County Public School students, inspiring them to explore their own cultural heritage and those of all ethnic groups in our multicultural society.
NICOLE WERTHEIM COLLEGE OF NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES
· 1st Master of Science in Athletic Training Program in Florida
· 1st Doctor of Athletic Training Program in Florida and one of only five programs nationwide
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The College’s nursing programs are counted among the top 70 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report (2019).
PATRICIA AND PHILLIP FROST ART MUSEUM–FIU
· 6,000+ objects in the permanent collection visitors annually · 35,000+ · One of just three art institutions in Florida chosen for inclusion in the Google Art Project.
ROBERT STEMPEL COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH & SOCIAL WORK
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The first university in the state to offer a master’s degree in Disaster Management through the Academy for International Disaster Preparedness
· The Center for Research on U.S. Latino HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (CRUSADA) has garnered more than $60 million in research grants.
STEVEN J. GREEN SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL & PUBLIC AFFAIRS
· Top 10 International Global Policy and Administration Program in the nation by U.S. News & World Report (2018)
· Ranked among the Top 40 in the world for Master’s
Programs for a Policy Career in International Relations (Foreign Affairs magazine, 2018 Ivory Tower Survey)
· #2 Online Criminal Justice Program in the U.S., as ranked by BestColleges.com (2018)
· The Green School’s Model United Nations team is
consistently ranked in the top five in North America.
· The Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean
Center is considered a National Resource Center on Latin America by the U.S. Department of Education and is recognized as a top U.S. Latin American and Caribbean Center.
THE WOLFSONIAN–FIU objects in The Wolfonsian’s permanent · 180,000+ collection
the 2018 Experts’ Choice Award from · Received
TripExpert, given to fewer than 2% of attractions worldwide
· Named the New Times “Best Museum” in 2016 · Ranked #23 out of 50 for amazing college museums by CollegeRank.net
· Home to two faculty who are members of the prestigious National Academy of Medicine
· $13.1 million grant from the National Institute on
Minority Health and Health Disparities to build South Florida’s first Health Disparities Research Center at a Minority Institution, called FIU-RCMI
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